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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1999
Junichi Tsuji, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A carrier mounting structure which can smoothly mount a film carrier to a carrier stand and alleviate the effects on vibration isolating rubber. The carrier mounting structure, which includes an image reading device mounted to a main body of an image reading apparatus via vibration isolating rubber which alleviates the effects of vibration from the outside, and a carrier mounting portion which is formed at a reading position of the image reading device and to which a carrier having an image information carrying member loaded therein is mounted, includes: an upper surface of the main body of the image reading apparatus along which surface a bottom surface of the carrier is slid; a mounting surface of the carrier mounting portion, which is formed at a position higher than the upper surface of the main body of the image reading apparatus and to which the carrier is mounted; and an inclined surface formed at a corner portion of the carrier mounting portion and inclined toward the mounting surface of the carrier mounting portion from a position which is lower than the upper surface of the main body of the image reading apparatus.